Problem with Age of Empires II

Gustano: firstly im making 2 assumptions.
1. your problem is the same as the OP:

cosarrara;468949 Wrote:
> After install Age of Empires II, i try to play, but it not run and the
> message is: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your
> video
> card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
> My Pc is new, i have a good ATI card and i try with the solutions
> proposed
> in this link without any result:
> '\"Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
> and driver are compatible with DirectDraw\" error message when you start
> Age of Empires II'
> (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B242902&x=22&y=12)
>
> Can anyone help me, please??!! :s

2: that you are extracting all 3 files to both the age of empires
directory and the subdirectory created by conquerors.

If this is the case you may not have the specific Permissions to
initiate Direct3D under your system so i would suggest selecting Run as
Administrator" under the file options.

see if that helps


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Unit92

Hello,

Thank you for answer me, I have many time without solve this problem,
sice I changed my ati radeon x1950 pro to my geforce 8800 gt.

1. Yes, that is my problem. ("Could not initialize graphics system.
Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with
DirectDraw" error message when you start Age of Empires II), sometimes
appear that message but other times starts the presentation of the game
and then appear a black screen and when I move my mouse appear many
diferent colors.

2. I can't extract the files directly to my game's directory. so i had
to extract them to my desktop and then i copied them to the games,
should be work??


I have a geforce 8800 gt, original windows vista and the game is also
original.

Thank you.

Gusanto


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Gusanto